October 2010
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The web is reborn
Lots of great response — both positive and negative — to my recent comments on 100% reporting, which I plan to pull together and talk about more. That’s going to have to wait, though: with all the transatlantic moving going on right now I’ve not got time to collect it all up.
I do, however, have time to plug a piece I’ve been working on for quite a while: a cover story for...
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Why the 100% solution feels 95% wrong
There’s a little meme, fired up mostly by Jay Rosen, about something called “the 100% solution” for journalism. That is, taking a subject and covering everything about it (Rosen’s example is a network of organisations and volunteers covering every single event in the upcoming Chicago mayoral elections).
This idea of total reporting has built a head of steam, both the...
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Weeknotes: 28
Oh, so much to organise. Turns out that it’s incredibly difficult to do any work while trying to move continents — particularly since this time (as opposed to when we moved from the UK to the US) everything is down to us. There’s no organisation guarding my back any more, so the packing, the paperwork, the tickets, the planning is entirely our responsibility. That’s a little...
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Weeknotes: 27
Preparation for leaving the United States continues, but in between packing and socialising, this week found time to see Project Olana finally wrap (and, thanks to the hard work of the guys at Technology Review, it will look great). Similarly, Project Moke, a piece for Wired, seems to be done and will hit the streets later this year. It’s gratifying to get two major pieces of work out the...
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Weeknotes: 26
Last week marked six months of freelancing. It’s a time that’s been full of ups and downs — right now they feel more like downs than ups. A succession of projects I’ve been working on have suddenly gone south, which means I’ve been trying to salvage something from them. And while I know it’s bad luck or bad planning, rather than my own writing ability, that have...
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Weeknotes: 25
Twenty five weeks — that means I’m almost six months into freelance life. It’s quite incredible, really, to think that half a year ago I was an employee.
Anyway, it’s been three weeks since the last update, nearly all of them on the road. Two weeks on trains around America with Anna, followed immediately by a few days in Britain. That turned into a bit of an insane...